From Data to Aggregates
Sylvie Leleu‐Merviel · 2018
Charles W. Morris separated the different disciplines dealing with language into: Syntax, semantics and pragmatics. As a result, some authors systematically split the science of information into a few complementary sub-axes. This chapter shows that the different axes coordinate and interfere within a single process. Most of the recent works that revisit the concept of information are based on the constructivist epistemology of the Palo Alto School, in particular, on the works of Gregory Bateson, whose analysis they deepen. The chapter reviews his works. It proposes a diagram explaining how the diaphoria of noumenal reality are first captured by raw sampling, then transformed into data via coding procedures, data that are later assembled into meaningful representations supported by structuring and organizing superstructures called aggregates.